10 Rare photos of John Cena you must see

7: Alongside Samoa Joe

UPW days

Cena’s professional wrestling career began at Ultimate Pro Wrestling. He started training there back in 1999 and had a semi-robotic character which was named ‘The Prototype’. He was a heavyweight champion in the promotion for almost a month and his journey there was documented by Discovery channel as well. Ultimate pro Wrestling had some notable names on their roster like Rob Van Dam, Rikishi, Jimmy Snuka, Roddy Piper and Ken Shamrock being just some of them.

Another notable name from the promotion was Samoa Joe. In the picture, you can see Joe and Cena learning at UPW and it is fascinating to see the different paths that these two went after this.